Lasagne alla Bolognese with béchamel sauce

Ingredients for 6 servings:

• 1 bunch of soup vegetables
• 1 onion(s)
• 2 cloves garlic
• 100 g smoked bacon, streaky
• 3 tbsp olive oil
• 500 g minced beef
• Salt
• pepper
• 125 ml red wine or vegetable stock
• 600 g tomatoes, chunky, from the can
• 5 tbsp tomato paste
• 1 bunch of thyme
• Sugar
• 2 onions
• 75 g butter
• 60 g flour
• ½ liter vegetable broth
• ½ liter of milk
• 100g Gouda
• Nutmeg, grated
• 250 g lasagna sheet(s) (without pre-cooking)
• 100g Gouda

Instructions

Working time approx. 40 minutes; Cooking/baking time approx. 1 hour; Total time approx. 1 hour 40 minutes

For the minced meat sauce: Clean the vegetables and dice very finely. Chop the onion and garlic. Dice the bacon. Heat the olive oil in a pan. Fry the bacon, vegetables, onion, and garlic until translucent. Add the minced meat and fry until crumbly and brown. Season with salt and pepper. Deglaze with red wine or stock and let it evaporate. Add the diced tomatoes and tomato paste to the pan and simmer for about 10 minutes. Stir in the thyme and season the sauce with salt, pepper, and a pinch of sugar. For the béchamel sauce: Chop the onion. Heat the butter in a saucepan and sauté the diced onion and flour, stirring continuously. Gradually add the stock and milk in small portions. Stir vigorously with a whisk occasionally to avoid lumps, and bring the sauce to a boil. Coarsely grate the cheese and let it melt into the sauce. Season with salt, pepper, and nutmeg. Spread a little béchamel sauce on the bottom of a baking dish. Place a layer of lasagna sheets on top. Add a layer of Bolognese sauce and cover with lasagna sheets. Continue until all the ingredients are used up. Finish with a thick layer of béchamel sauce to give the lasagna sheets moisture to cook in. Coarsely grate the cheese and sprinkle it over the lasagna. Bake in a preheated oven at 175°C (150°C fan oven) for about 50-60 minutes. Variations: For a vegetarian option, use mushrooms and 10g of dried porcini mushrooms instead of the minced meat. Layer thinly sliced ​​fish fillets (salmon, ling, plaice) instead of the minced meat sauce. Then prepare the béchamel sauce without the cheese and season with lemon juice. Add cooked broccoli to the béchamel sauce for a broccoli lasagna.